Ranch dressing is actually a fifth state of matter known as soft matter. Soft matter can have properties of both liquids and ...

The ultrafast dynamics and interactions of electrons in molecules and solids have long remained hidden from direct ...

Much of cell behavior is governed by the actions of biomolecular condensates: building block molecules that glom together and ...

Researchers are discovering the electrochemical properties of biomolecular condensates which could help in development of cancer or ALS treatments.

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

A team of Italian scientists has successfully made light behave like a supersolid for the first time. Published in Nature ...

Hundreds of regular patterns spontaneously emerge on a small germanium chip. A curiosity about tiny dots on a germanium wafer with metal films led to the discovery of intricate spiral patterns etched ...

Curiosity about a mistake that left tiny dots on a germanium wafer with evaporated metal films led to the discovery of beautiful spiral patterns etched on the surface of the semiconductor by a ...